Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 07, 2023

Their scientific minds are curious to observe the guinea pig’s behavior in a different indoor environment.

He might look bigger in the smaller room

Mr. Danders will be overjoyed.

As long as you don’t pick him up….lol

It’s a different level of access.

Utility room guinea pigs are one of the rarest sightings on Earth, next to utility room pot-bellied pigs.

Innocent looks of hope on Dill in panels 2 and 4 :)

A frayed knot? Is that what I see in the bottom right corner?

The look of expectation on their faces – almost like Christmas morning. Excellent!

I like the overlapping balloons in panel 4. The kids are basically speaking the same thought anyway.

If I had custody of Mister Danders, I would get for him a multi-level habitat with one enclosure resembling a garden, another with miniature kitchen/dining room with pellet and water dispenser over a counter with barstool, bathroom with auto-flushing toilet hole in the floor and Victorian bathtub that auto-drains after use and a bedroom with rodent size bed, and maybe a living room with small couch and LCD TV set to Animal Planet. All connected by hamster tunnels.

Context is important. And maybe they could get in on the card game with Mr. Danders and the cricket. Go Fish?

Beni bursts the Balloon of Inconvenient Truth that Alice had spoken (panel 2) with his brilliant retort in panel 4, The Three Amigos need to see Danders In Context, in the Otterloop utility room! And in a rare occurrence, Alice is left speechless….